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UNICORN HAWK-MOTa 
Sphi?a Convolvuli. 
PLATE VI. 
Bpliituc Convolvuli, Lion. ; Donovan, vii. PI. 228 and 229.— 
Unicorn or Bindweed Hawk-moth, Wittes . — Unicom or 
Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Harris . — Sphinx h comes d» 
Boeuf, Geoff., Godart. 
The surface of the primary tvings in this fine species 
is greyish-ash colour, clouded tvith brown and 
black, and marked with a few narrow lines or 
streaks of deep black. The secondary wmgs are 
also greyish, and traversed by three dark-coloured 
bands, the anterior one bent towards the body, the 
second oblique and somewhat double, the third 
widened externally and nearly parallel with the 
hinder margins. The fiinge surrounding the wings 
is wiiite interrupted with brown. The thorax is 
nearly of the same colour as the upper wings, 
marked with two dark indistinct lines, somewhat' in 
the shape of a horse-shoe, and having a bluish spot 
behind, with a red one adjoining. The abdomen 
is ringed alternately with black and red, inclining 
